Putting Contrast to Work with Your iPhone
The iPhone 5s makes a fantastic camera, especially when it’s the only one you’ve got, with an assist from Snapseed.
Ebb and Flow on the Water
There’s an ebb and flow to life, like day and night, on Maine’s coastal waters.
A Meaningful Contrast on the Wharf
Contrasts are frequently meaningful; but in the case of lobster traps on a Maine wharf, that depends.
A Contrast Between Life and Death
Photography excels at capturing contrasts—between dark and light, shadow and bright, death and life.
Finding My First Sweet True Love
For me, reading, writing, photography and painting are all intertwined like a tangle of sticky spaghetti.
What’s Your Creative Personality?
Is your creative personality fed by travel, productivity, fashion, caffeine or . . . what? Here’s what stokes eight different creative types.
Looking for the Contrasts Between Things
Finding the subtle similarities, and the contrasts, between things is one way to make photographs richer.
Lost and Found Along the Highway
A life lost, a photograph found but words, not. Some days are just that: wordless.
When Serendipity Makes Your Shot an Image
When you expected the unexpected, serendipity can become your photographic assistant.
Finding That Sweet Lagniappe in Photography
It’s always sweet to find that unexpected reward in your photographs—that unexpected extra detail to make the shot an image.
Ask Yourself Six Questions to Skyrocket Your Creativity
Curiosity can shift your attitude so that you’re seeing magic in what’s been seemingly mundane, and your creativity will skyrocket.
How Collecting Art Is Also Collecting Stories—Yours
What does a photograph mean to me? To you? Photographs, like all art, elicit our emotions and our reactions, and the connections that we make with them. What touches me […]
The Naturescapes Shop Is Open for Art Collectors
Whether you’ve already got a serious art habit, or you’re just starting to collect art, take a stroll through my new Naturescapes Shop.
Focus Only on What You Are Writing Now
Follow the 11 Commandments of Writing and Daily Creative Routine, according to Henry Miller, in 1932.
Why Cities Are Ideal for Creative Voyeurs
As practitioners of creativity, we’re inspired by our voyeuristic natures. And cities offer much room to look inside for ideas.
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